Navigating Early
ShirinI remember going to the bookstore years ago without a booklist. I didn't have any title or book in mind, but I knew that I wanted something different... something that…
Fields of Home
Fields of Home by Marita Conlon-McKenna is the third and final volume of the Children of the Famine trilogy. (I have reviewed the first two books, Under the Hawthorn Tree and Wildflower Girl.) It has been twelve years…
Wildflower Girl
Wildflower Girl by Marita Conlon-McKenna is the sequel to Under the Hawthorne Tree. (You can read my review here.) This book sees Eily, Michael and Peggy alive and well six…
The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963
My girls and I had a rip-roaring time with “The Watsons Go To Birmingham – 1963” by multi-award winning author, Christopher Paul Curtis. The story is about the “Weird Watsons”,…
Under the Hawthorn Tree
I first discovered this gem of a book by Marita Conlon-McKenna quite by accident and almost gave it a miss – it was such a ragged copy! I got it…